You sound like a bundle of joy. To me it all depends on the situation - but I’ve dealt w/ network engineers that really had no business being over it or any real understanding of Linux, ssh, tunnels, etc. He was constantly ignoring my work related requests that absolutely needed resolution in 4-48hrs so I just stopped communicating w/ him.
The moment I gained access to a staging server that wasn’t locked down to hell & back I forwarded whatever ports & level of access that I needed. It’d have served the company better to give me the permissions to open up ports & access as I needed in the first place, devs need access to what they’re dev’ing or running against but given the level of quality people I was dealing w/ I just gave up & granted myself access in other ways vs opening up support tickets all the time.
I did recently gain access to an employee that was on it though & used common sense - sadly they’ve resigned & I don’t know why but I do know it’s a HUGE loss. They had some amazing side projects going on too - the guy was valuable imo & an effort to keep him should have been made if it hadn’t.
The request came from a team that regularly deploys plain-text HTTP anonymous (unauthenticated) APIs for setting user passwords via an injection-vulnerable query.
Some of them complain about regexes, and running commands in the terminal.
Recently one was blocked for a day because they didn't think to google "how to make a script executable".
Another one complained because their files weren't automatically copied to a new laptop. All on the macOS desktop directory of course.
One of those wanted me to set up an Emacs config with org-mode, and write instructions on how to use it. Thankfully their manager "had words" with them and they gave up on their quest. They had never used Emacs before, and hated the command line.
Oh and the enormous "fun" we have dealing with the staunchly windows/microsoft only developer who has to use a Mac. You'd think they were being asked to shoot children they way they carried on.
Oh slow & proper growth is frowned upon - taking other people’s money & trying to grow fast isn’t sadly. I’ve been in that situation w/ a business partner & the moment I realized my partner was trying to push me out I was like f* this & you - I’m out. I have no tolerance for bs & I saw it early enough to check out before having invested more than 2-3k of my own money. Sadly a good bit of my time but I was furious & done w/ it.
Interesting, this might explain something someone started to talk to me about recently & I was just kinda like whatever - he’s not trump nor half as senile or incompetent as what conservatives make him out to be.
At this point I’d love a bill introducing max terms. Term limits. You can get re-elected but only so many times before you’re done. Do away with salaries for life “as compensation for your service”. They don’t need it if they are pulling in millions from enterprises, endorsements, book deals, merch, speaking fees in excess of $50,000.
Senate, you get 4 max terms. Reps, you get 6. SCOTUS, 4 and term limits of 6 years per term. Something to fix this professional career politicians we see like McConnell, Biden, Kennedy, Cruz, etc. The world moves too fast for one lifetime spent legislatively eliminating rights of people or bringing back “the good ol days”.
Could also just say different - children also have an unlimited tolerance for things that are sweet. Some adults I think never get past it much & have what I call super smellers too. But yea it’s like they can also lack the tastebuds that’d help them appreciate bitter things later in life, like most adults do. Could just be natural that our tastebuds from when were kids change or die off sorta, which allows for the fuller palate.
Tbh though I can’t stand bitter & earwax level IPAs. Just gives me headaches.
Didn’t enjoy mastodon? Maybe it’s all about the instance but there are many & over many interests. Tbh I’ve enjoyed the Fosstodon instance very much & w/ iOS clients like Ice Cubes I don’t feel like I’m missing anything at all.
People complained endlessly about Facebook & privacy & stoking outrage & yet are swarming to threads & act like signing up for Mastodon is climbing Mt Everest.. it’s not & I feel people are acting & being a bit silly.
Also w/ how Google Talk & XMPP went why would anyone think that Threads would be better at implementing ActivityPub? Last thing we need is a commercial entity “committing” to ActivityPub while actively undermining it at the same time.
Haven’t read the article yet, but no it’s not garbage. There’s literally not a single terminal app on linux that remotely comes close to it. ITerm2 is extremely flexible & powerful & well designed. I used to get beachballs w/ it though & I think that went away as I went from using tons of tabs to just 1-4 & tmux for the rest.
Closest I’ve come on linux is xfce4-terminal w/ devilspie2 to fill the gaps.
